Palmer v. Allen

11 U.S. 550

7 Cranch 550

3 L.Ed. 436

PALMER

v.

ALLEN.

March 16, 1813

1

Absent. TODD, J.

2

ERROR to the Supreme Court of Errors of the state of Connecticut, in any action of assault and battery and false imprisonment, brought by Allen against Palmer, who was a deputy marshal of the United States for the district of Connecticut and had served a process of attachment upon Allen, and committed him to prison for want of bail, without such a mittimus as is usual upon commitment on like process issuing from the state Courts.

3

Palmer pleaded a special justification under the writ of attachment issued out of the…